- Wifi: CSS_Summer_School/Password: Summer2023
- This morning:
- Introduction: What are CSS?
- Presentation/Schedule/More Logistics!
- Introduction: What are CSS?
What are Computational Social Sciences?
- Computers? Nothing new!
- (Kashyap, 2021): “Demography has long used computer data”
- But since the 2000s, two changes:
+ Data abundance
+ Computer power
Is more data better? Polarized views
Is more data better? Polarized views
A Classic Distinction: Sample, and Population
But what if you could collect all data in the time it takes to collect a sample?
If your data is digitized, well-organized, this could be possible
in Fourcade, Ollion & Algan, “The Superiority of Economists,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015.





Promises are still in the waiting
The lessons of the history of science need to be heeded






Do, Shen & Ollion, « The Augmented Social Scientist »
Using AI to extract sentence-levels forms of narration in politics